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back to square one	Located back at the start, as after a dead-end or failure.	Rate it: (3.00 / 2 votes)
Back to Square One	A situation in which, one has to return to an earlier state due to certain drawbacks or failures	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
be there or be square	Used to encourage someone to go somewhere.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
brace in	to bring the yards more square to the fore and aft line	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
brass ring	One and one half inch diameter iron rings were offered riders on a Carousel by a dispensing device alongside: A Brass Ring was inserted into the dispenser at random. The Carousel Rider who succeeded in snatching the Brass Ring was rewarded A Free Ride upon return to the Operator of the Brass Ring:	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
circle gets the square	An affirmative response; often used sarcastically.	Rate it: (3.00 / 2 votes)
every inch	totally, completely	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
fair and square	Within the applicable rules.	Rate it: (4.50 / 2 votes)
fair and square	Totally fairly and undoubtedly.	Rate it: (4.00 / 1 vote)
give someone an inch and someone will take a mile	If concessions are made for someone, that will embolden them to take further advantage of the person who helped them, instead of being content with what they have been given.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
go back to square one	revert to the beginning and start all over again	Rate it: (2.50 / 2 votes)
il en a l'air et la chanson	He looks it every inch; He has both the appearance and the actuality.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
in cha' Allah	Variante de Inch’Allah.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
in for an inch, in for a mile	Given that one is partly involved in or committed to a project, action, position, etc., there is no reason to refrain from becoming fully involved or fully committed.	Rate it: (3.00 / 1 vote)
in orbem consistere	to form a square.	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
Inch Allah	Variante orthographique de Inch’Allah.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
inch Allah	Variante de Inch’Allah.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
inch-perfect	perfectly measured.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
on the huh	not level, not square, not straight	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
on the square	Honest and open.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
on the square	on the square	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
on the square	A discrete, unassuming reference to freemasonry.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
orbem facere (Sall. Iug. 97. 5)	to form a square.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Punchboard	A book-size laminated paper 1'/2 inch thick board with 25 to 200 drilled holes in surface. Holes contain 'accordion-fold', numbered kite-paper which when 'punched-out of board' with small PUNCH-tool may reveal a 'winning-chance number': Winning Numbers posted on board. Variety of Valuable prizes is predetermined by cost of a single 'PUNCH': Win! Box Candy, jewelry, trinkets, appliances, tools, flashlights et al:	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
razor strapped	The violent WHIPPING of a recalcitrant, errant, disobedient grammar school boy with a two-inch wide by thirty inch long by one/quarter inch thick cowhide strap or belt. Punishment was generally for a misdemeanor and the beating was generally by the schoolmaster, school Principal, janitor or a person designated by the Principal to administer the 'thrashing': 'Crying out' or screaming by the school boy was met by harsher thrashing and Yelling' from the maddened 'THRASHER': The well 'WELTED'STRAPPED victims were forced to return to their classroom	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
si vous lui en donnez long comme le doigt, il en prendra long comme le bras	Give him an inch, he will take an ell.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
slowly i turn, step by step, inch by inch	To move deliberately & slowly	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
square away	To finish, complete, tidy or put in order.	Rate it: (3.50 / 4 votes)
square cut	cricket stroke	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
square meal	A satisfying meal, especially suitable for one performing physical labor.	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
square off	To get ready for a fight.	Rate it: (3.50 / 2 votes)
square off	To get in the fighting position.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
square one	The place where one begins; a lack of progress.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
square peg into a round hole	The phrase is typically said, "You cant fit a square peg into a round hole." Often it is shortened to simply "square peg, round hole." Something or someone that does not fit well or at all; something that will not succeed as attempted, except possibly with much force and effort, or alteration of either the peg or the hole or both beyond recognition.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
square rod	a unit of area used for measuring small quantities of land. Equal in size to a square with sides 1 rod in length. Equal to 30Â¼ square yards or 1/160 acre. Sometimes known, simply, as a rod.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
square rod	Used other than as an idiom: see square, rod.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
square shooter	A person who is fair, trustworthy, or forthright; a person who bargains or transacts business in a fair, honest manner.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
square up	To get ready for a fight.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
square up	To pay back money that is owed.	Rate it: (3.00 / 2 votes)
square up	To get in the fighting position.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
squaring the circle	The historical problem of how to construct, using compass and ruler, a square having the same area as a given circle.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
start with a clean sheet	To go back to square one; start all over again.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
un républicain à tous crins	Every inch a republican.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
within an inch of one’s life	Figuratively or hyperbolically, means very soundly, thoroughly, or completely; To an extreme degree or extent; often follows the verb ‘beat’ to mean ‘very close to or near death’	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)